I am the They/Them your parents warned you about

been pissing myself laughing over these today so i had to contribute

I used to work at a TV station in Ohio. On weekends, we only had an 11pm news broadcast. Not much happened on weekends, ya know? I worked Monday-Friday 9-5, but someone on the weekend shift quit, so I also had to come in at 9pm on Sat/Sun to work the 11pm news. It was brutal. I worked seven days a week, even if two of them were ~3hrs.

This was a particularly bad winter. One Saturday, we had a level 2 snow emergency: That means you should only travel if you absolutely must. Like, it's not uncommon for cops to pull you over in level 2 emergencies to ask where you're going and why. It is genuinely dangerous to drive in that much snow.

I told my boss as much, how I almost crashed on the way home at 12:30am after a news broadcast. I told him I would need to call off if there were a snow emergency again during a night snow.

He told me, point blank, "If you ever call me about the goddamn snow, I will take it as a call of resignation."

And that was that! The very next Saturday, snow fell again. It was a level 2, but would become level 3 by sunup. Level 3 means driving is literally illegal except for ambulances and snow plows. I stared out the window, watching the snow, and I had to make a choice.

"Will I die for this? Will I kill myself to keep this job?" I made $11/hr.

No one, *ever*, tried to persuade me to transition.

When I first met her, she used to joke about how her coach said, "I could get more than that out of a pig if I kicked it hard enough," and that was the nicest fucking thing he said. Two decades later, she's like, "Yeah, that man verbally and physically abused all of us for years."

There is at least one football game she played in high school that she simply doesn't remember, because she was a linebacker. She got a concussion. She got up and kept playing... or so she's told. She doesn't remember, because she had a fucking concussion and they let her keep playing.

you might have to rotate them, idk how the format will come through

Working on a fic that takes place on Erid while Rocky’s gone and made up some kids for him and Adrian to be side characters in it. Grey and Donnie both followed in their parents footsteps (Adrian is a biologist in this fic and Grey is their apprentice, Donnie is an engineer) while Jr and Apollo are both doing their own thing to try to help fight the astrophage from Erid.

Rocky neglects to tell Grace any of this until two years into the trip back to Erid.

Bonus Erid best parent and his pebbles

you can make fanart for make a terribble comic day, right?

[image ID: first image: Project Hail Mary fan art with Rocky, Adrian and Grace in a line against a plain light yellow background. Rocky is drawn as a simple brown blob with five legs, Adrian is a larger teal blob with five legs, and Grace is a stick figure coloured in the colours of the AroAce flag.